Me: "That's not a good way to try wine. A great deal of the taste is from the olifactory sense."

Wife: "It's a good way to try wine that smells and tastes like smokey poo."

There you have it, in a nutshell. We had 2 bottles, bought from 2 different stores in 2 different states, with similar notes. Despite the above dialogue, it wasn't an offensive wine, just very . . . different. We loved the '99. $20. Alc. 13.4%